Leaked Supreme Court Decision signals majority set to overturn Roe v. Wade

[Rev. Rye]

What next? Having your tubes tied (male or female) is against the law?

Other birth control is banned? The religious concept that sex is only for the purpose of reproduction?

We are not heading in the right direction.

It makes me glad my reproductive days are over but I have grandchildren who could be dealing with these issues up close and personal.

There was actually a bill in Texas last year that said that any abortion that happened after fertilisation should be punishable by death. And this capital punishment isn't just for the abortionist, but for the mother. And given that their starting point is from fertilisation, given how many pregnancies just miscarry even before women are any the wiser (often because the sperm unites with the egg but can't implant itself in the womb), it looks like, if you've had sex more than two times without getting pregnant, there's a good chance you're no better than Frances Newton to them.



It's worth noting that, while a lot of people think that abolishing Roe would just send America back to the Pre-Roe years, it looks like the situation will actually be worse than that for women. Those days, the laws tended to presuppose that the woman in the situation was being preyed upon by wicked back-alley abortionists or other abusive men, so it was the doctors who would be on the hook for the most part. By this point, it looks like the "Pro-Life" side has come around to assuming that women have some moral agency in this situation in the worst way possible: if they have an abortion, they're on the hook for it, and that's about it for them. Any rights they have are subordinated to the rights their fetus has, and when the vast majority of abortions take place, its brain is functionally little more than an organic pacemaker if that. So, the rights of a woman (an autonomous woman) are trumped by the rights of a being that (at this point) is functionally brain-dead. There was some benevolent sexism in the earlier laws, but now, they've decided the thing to do is drop the benevolence.